Opioid deaths in DuPage have risen by 53 percent in the past year. In 2016, there were 78 total deaths, with 36 from heroin, 16 from fentanyl, and 26 from a mixture of the two.

In 2015, the total number of opioid deaths was 51. While the numbers for heroin deaths stayed the same for both years, there was a 100 percent increase in the number of fentanyl deaths, and a 370 percent increase in deaths resulting from a combination of fentanyl and heroin.

Will County saw more than a 40 percent increase in opioid deaths in that same time.

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